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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| nullterm wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 15:25 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 13:56 |
| smyth260 wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 14:53 |
I don’t think anyone will call them the problem, but their results against Florida and especially in the biggest games of these 2 series are disappointing. Barkov and Forsling owned them. We can blame some of that on coaching but at the end of the day they were not the best players in the series, like we have seen in many previous rounds.
No need to reinvent their game, but it happened. While I wouldn’t want it to be a topic in the media, but we can acknowledge it here.
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I just disagree. They still were the Oilers best players in the series. Some bad puck luck too. The stats suggested that McDavid was slaughtering the competition on expected goals but it wasn't going in for him. Some of that is no Hyman and broken Nuge - if you have no one else who can convert it doesn't help.
Would have loved if they put up hat tricks the last couple games, but the whole Florida game plan was to neutralize those guys knowing that no one else was going to get anything done.
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I don’t think they were the problem. I think this is a team problem. And often in team situations you need to adapt what you have against what you don’t have.
Especially when people are going down due to injury.
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What are 97 and 29 supposed to do about sub-.900 goaltending every game? What are they supposed to do when defencemen are throwing absolute grenade pass giveaways, and then getting walked? They're already playing ridiculously high minutes. They can't do everything. We need a better base around them.
I mean, someone suggested we have two Gretzkys, no Messier. I don't think that's the case at all. I think the 80s Oilers had Kurri on Gretzky's line, and Anderson on Messier's line and they thought that wasn't enough - they still got Tikkanen and Nilsson and Simpson, etc. to play with them. And their third line was always good. Scored, defended, outplayed other team's depth. The stars can't be on the ice the whole damn time. Sather was never content with the team and always added pieces when he could.
No salary cap in those days which is a bit easier, but he did was Zito did - found players who were undervalued elsewhere and brought them in. He wasn't only looking at trades. He brought Randy Gregg from the Team Canada/U of A program. He got players out of Europe. He picked up guys on waivers.
Zito's done similarly. He got Bennett when the Flames sold low. He got Forsling for nothing when another team waived him. He got Reinhart for a first round pick and a goalie prospect.
The Oilers just aren't playing in the same league when it comes to Team Management and that's what won the series. There's just no world in which an Adam Henrique centered third line can be expected to outplay a Marchand-driven one.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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